He said: "Overwhelmingly people understood. Before that had even aired, people were saying: 'Daniel needs help, not prison'. So there was a feeling that people were understanding someone who was in psychological turmoil, as opposed to someone who was getting off on doing it.

"I got a lot of people [getting in touch with] me, saying about the time of night it went out and things like that. There were some reports to Ofcom about it."